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- Air Kissing on Mars
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: Red Hen Press
summary
Kim Dower’s poems are sensual and rhapsodic journeys through emotional landscapes sweeping everyday life. Playful, intelligent, funny, edgy, engaging—sometimes biting, ironic and dark, sometimes dreamy and surreal, full of poignancy and arresting metaphors, the daily, simple occurrences in Air Kissing On Mars startle and provoke, while stirring up the fairy dust and turbulent weight of memory; evoking the possibilities and gorgeous chaos of life.
Open and inviting, these poems draw the reader into a world seen upside down, inside out, a sideways bird reporting on a universe filled with mystery and passion. Joan Didion meets Tinkerbell, Kim Dower’s poems are as whimsical and light as they are rich and intense. Simultaneously humorous and profound these passionate and personal poems, relatable to all, are drenched with vivid imagery, and sparkle with surprise.
Lost languages, disappearing mailboxes, locomotives pummeling through dreams, taxi drivers thrown by the earth’s rotation, shadows in closets, vanishing carrots, men who exfoliate—all manner of haunting evocations come together in this opus of shining and startling wisdom.
Table of Contents
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- Dedication
- pp. 11-14
- Section 1. True Stories
- pp. 15-16
- She Is Awakened by a Hair
- pp. 18-19
- Dying Languages
- p. 20
- Even in a Dream
- p. 23
- Geography Matters
- pp. 26-27
- Visiting Janice
- pp. 28-29
- Dressing Room
- pp. 30-31
- If My Father Were Alive
- pp. 32-33
- The Couple Next Door
- pp. 34-35
- The Ant in the Window
- pp. 36-37
- Different Mothers
- pp. 40-41
- Women’s Competition
- p. 46
- The Mole They Cut Out of Your Chest
- pp. 48-49
- First E-Mail of the Day
- pp. 50-51
- Alt. Flute 101
- pp. 56-57
- Next Time No Potatoes
- pp. 58-59
- Killing the Fly
- pp. 61-62
- Section 2. People Give Me Titles
- pp. 63-64
- Nightingale Fever
- p. 66
- Bent Daisies
- p. 67
- The things I do in my car
- pp. 72-73
- Print Wendy’s Notes
- pp. 76-77
- drops on the mirror
- pp. 78-79
- The Runaway Poem
- pp. 80-81
- The Door (1)
- pp. 82-83
- The Door (2)
- p. 84
- The Door (3)
- p. 85
- When Gifts Go Wrong
- p. 86
- The Coffin Bone
- p. 88
- Section 3. Cranky in Paradise
- pp. 89-90
- She can’t work
- pp. 92-93
- Cranky in Paradise
- pp. 94-95
- The Things You Hate
- p. 98
- it is what it is
- p. 99
- Turbulence
- pp. 100-101
- Some Things Don’t Change
- p. 102
- He Doesn’t, She Does
- pp. 104-105
- She blew her nose
- pp. 106-107
- Cloud Coverage on Easter
- pp. 108-109
- Waiting for You in the Bar
- pp. 110-111
- I Am Returning
- pp. 112-113
- The Necessary Orange
- p. 114
- Section 4. How To
- pp. 117-118
- How to Relax
- p. 119
- How to Talk to Water
- pp. 120-121
- How to Eat Turkey if You Don’t Like Turkey
- pp. 122-123
- How to Look at Clouds
- pp. 124-126
- How to Have a Nice Day
- pp. 128-130
- Air Kissing on Mars
- p. 131
Additional Information
ISBN
9781597091817
Related ISBN(s)
9781597091664
MARC Record
OCLC
835771087
Pages
136
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No